Irredeemable #36

Irredeemable #36
Boom Studios
Written by Mark Waid
Art by Diego Barreto

Plutonian is back, this time trying to save the earth from a devastating type of radiation after Qubit convinced him it would be the best thing for him to do. The only problem is that he just got the snot kicked out of him by Modeus and isn’t in a real position to do much of anything. The other superheroes who are still left are fighting among themselves with Sy in possession of ancient seeds from the mythical Tree of Life that could help save humanity and one of them is hearing voices (I thought the voice only talked to me). Did I forget anything?

Ever since this series was introduced on Free Comic Book day a few years ago, I’ve been impressed by the art. That doesn’t change here. It’s detailed enough to blend with the story and make you feel like part of the story. Each panel flows and allows the reader to move from one scene to the next, yet there are times when I would like for it to tell me where the character are, just in case I’m reading this story for the first time. Now, that leads me to the writing, I’m glad that I had a quick heads up on what’s going on but when I got into the story, I was lost for about half of the issue.

Now, I could see where the story was going but I couldn’t follow what was going on. Now, if I have this issue, what’s going to happen when someone else picks this up cold? I think they could have a worse time. Also, I pointed it before, the storyteller didn’t tell us where the characters where. Are they on this world, an alternate reality; even if they told us in the previous issue, there are those of us who haven’t read it yet. Again, this is something that most fans want to know. In my humble opinion, if you’re a fan of the book, you’ll want this and know what’s going on, if you’re not, don’t get it. I give this 2.5 caps out of 5.